My Life With IT

It’s a funny thing that gets really interesting over the years just about copyrights. I remember the huge uproar over being fined just for keeping or was is sharing MP3 songs over the Internet. Quite a number of people were fined with the court supporting certain cases.

I think the person who first came out with MP3 for songs is purely for personal use and the ease of the digital song format got spread fast and furious. Even better than the singers trying their darnest to hold autograph sessions and concerts with their marketing strategies like freebies, etc.

It’s so strange since spreading the songs and movies via the Internet is a lot faster than spreading via the television, billboards, newspapers, special shows interviewing the actors and actresses, and other money spending marketing techniques.

The Internet consists of Twitter, Facebook, Plurk and I don’t know what social media they will come up with in just a year’s time. Things that do need publicity tend to spread faster online than offline. By the time the video or something gets into print, more than a million views may have just hit the video in Youtube.

Recently,there’s this huge case about weddings playing copyrighted songs. Seriously, I am amazed at the ways money can be squeezed out from using the word “Copyright”. I wonder if it’s meant for everything since I don’t remember that word can cover everything. It’s a sad thing that just to play one song, the couple may just get into deeper debt by playing a few songs at their wedding.

From this point forth, will anyone dare to do anything or will there be ways about it? Humans are creative creatures who can come up with wonderful ways just to avoid being prosecuted. That’s where bribery came about since the I don’t know when. We have come a long way from reducing bribery, I hope we don’t have to resort to this stage just to play a few songs at a wedding dinner that’s supposed to be a happy occasion.